This Immortal

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• nazgulnarsil · Mar 19, 2008 · Recommends

  …(Cyberiad, Futurological Congress, Solaris) Alfred Bester (The STars my Destination, The Demolished Man) or Samuel R. Delany (Babel-17, Dhalgren, Trtion, Nova) oh and Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light and This Immortal are both great. Some of Philip K. Dick's stuff is great, but everyone recommends him. :) almost forgot John Brunner, check out Steel Beach, The Sheep Look Up, and Stand on Zanzibar.

  on “Ask YC: What's the most inspiring sci-fi book you've read?” ↗
• brudgers · Oct 11, 2014 · Recommends

  …post-apocalyptic world. The alien invasion of 1950's Day of the Triffids and the pandemic of 1949's Earth Abides [not a Hugo Novels] giving way to the nuclear wastelands of 1961's Canticle for Leibowitz's and 1966's This Immortal [when Zelzany's novel tied Herbert's Dune for the Hugo and rightly so]. By 1996's Diamond Age or 2010's Windup Girl the apocalypse is a slow moving tragedy of the commons brought on not by rash misunderstanding…

  on “Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read” ↗
• ohaideredevs · May 19, 2019 · Recommends

  …compare the TBD problem to anything because I just thought it was utter tripe, on the level of Brandon Sanderson's / Roger Zelazny's books - a lot of content, very little substance (with the exception of "This Immortal" by Zelazny, which is supposedly the inspiration for Planescape: Torment, which I can wholeheartedly recommend to any teenager). Of course, you might also enjoy Piknik na Obochine, Trudno Bit Bogom,…

  on “As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern” ↗
• brudgers · May 9, 2011 · Recommends

  I recently have been reading Hugo Award Novels and recommend Roger Zelazny's This Immortal which is good enough to have shared the award with Dune in 1965. Lord of Light is also a great read and won a Hugo in 1968. Clifford Simak's Way Station, Phillip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle, and…

  on “Ask HN: What do you read?” ↗
• 100k · Jul 4, 2015 · Recommends

  This Immortal is terrific. And Zelazany in general. Dune and Lord of Light (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light) are a few of the only SF books I re-read on a regular basis.

  on “Dune, 50 years on” ↗
• brudgers · Jul 4, 2015 · Mentions

  Dune shared the 1965 Hugo for Best Novel with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal...which says something about how good Zelazny's work is despite its relative obscurity (compared with Dune).

  on “Dune, 50 years on” ↗